Impact of Strategies Used in Online Teaching Approach on the Development of Emotional Intelligence of Students at Tertiary Level in Pakistan
Keywords:
Instructional Strategies, Emotional Intelligence, Accept change, Accepting criticism, Understanding variety of class fellowsAbstract
This research intends to investigate the impact of strategies used in online teaching approach on the development of emotional intelligence (EI) of students at tertiary level in the universities of Pakistan. The researcher first formulated the objectives and four hypotheses to meet the aims of the study. In this causal comparative study, researchers looked at the effect of already existing variable of strategies used in online teaching approach at tertiary level students of social sciences on the development of emotional intelligence as dependent variable. For this survey research design study, the researcher chose Quantitative approach. A perception questionnaire with five points Likert Scale was used for collecting the facts. Students of social science subjects in the universities of the Karachi was the population of the study. The researchers adopted simple random sampling technique and selected 275 students as respondents for the study. The researchers used One-sample t-test to compare the obtained data with already set criteria to examine the effect of independent variable on the dependent variables. They used statistical test through SPSS 22 for discovering the hidden facts. The findings of study concluded that all the null hypotheses were rejected and it explained that the instructional strategies used in online teaching have significant effect on the development of students’ emotional intelligence at tertiary level. Study concluded that used strategies have instilled the students’ ability of accepting criticism and learning from it, and inculcating the students’ ability of understanding variety of class fellows and working with them, and also developed the students’ skill of being open to accept any change. Thus use of proper online instructional strategies are effective in developing emotional intelligence among the students.
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